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11:55 AM ET, September 26, 2011

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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama mocks Perry, Republican debates  —  President Obama broadened his attack on Republicans Sunday night, firing an indirect shot at Texas Gov. Rick Perry and condemning audience members at recent Republican debates.  —  At a fundraiser in San Jose, Calif., Obama said that some in the audience might …
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Matt Negrin / The Politico:
Obama mocks Perry, GOP audiences  —  President Obama decided to criticize Rick Perry at a fundraiser in California on Sunday, mocking the governor of Texas for his position on global warming and also the audiences at the Republican debates who have applauded death and jeered a gay soldier.
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Obama raps Perry as gov ‘whose state is on fire’
Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog and The Page
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Cain nearly quit campaign before Florida straw poll, calls Obama a ‘liar’  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — Not everyone needs to go to Disney World to have fun in central Florida.  —  After one of Herman Cain's strongest showings yet at a Republican presidential debate Thursday, and two days …
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The Politico:
GOP field scrambles in fall cash dash
Discussion: CNN and msnbc.com
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Shutdown looms: Spotlight now on Senate after Boehner wrangled House GOP votes  —  With time running out, Congress returns Monday to try to pass a short-term funding measure to avert a government shutdown and avoid yet another market-rattling showdown over the federal budget.
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CNN:
Shutdown looms as Congress debates spending plan
Discussion: The Jawa Report and The Reaction
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Flood Victims Getting Fed Up With Congress
Rick Perry / The Daily Beast:
Roger's Reality Show  —  First, Ailes dialed back the Tea Party talk.  Now he's turning the GOP race into a political X-Factor—and steering the election agenda one more time.  —  It was part political spectacle, part American Idol, part YouTube extravaganza, a pure Roger Ailes production …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Euro Zone Death Trip  —  Is it possible to be both terrified and bored?  That's how I feel about the negotiations now under way over how to respond to Europe's economic crisis, and I suspect other observers share the sentiment.  —  On one side, Europe's situation is really, really scary …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government  —  Several long-term Gallup trends at or near historical lows  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years.
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Videos Show Police Using Pepper Spray at Protest on the Financial System  —  For a few moments on Saturday, the confrontations between the police and the protesters just south of Union Square in Manhattan seemed fairly typical.  People pushed, the police shoved and arrests were made …
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ABCNEWS:
‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent; Video Shows Police Macing Women
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Companies Get Gay-Rights Heat Over Christian Donations  —  The culture war over gay rights has entered the impersonal world of e-commerce.  —  A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country's largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft …
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Chuck Bennett / New York Post:
Cocaine ‘blow’ to economy  —  Here's another sign of the stalled economy — New Yorkers are ditching their coke habits.  —  Cocaine-related emergency-room admissions, overdoses and requests for rehab have declined since the economy started its 2008 decline, according to data obtained by The Post.
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Maxine Waters: Obama remarks ‘curious’  —  Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday called President Barack Obama's comments to black Americans that they should stop complaining “a bit curious” and said she doesn't “know who he was talking to.”  —  The California Democrat told CBS's “Early Show” …
BBC:
Eurozone rescue plan ‘emerging’ as IMF and Greece talk  —  The plan agreed by leaders reportedly envisages a “haircut”, or writedown, of Greece's sovereign debt  —  The outline of a large and ambitious eurozone rescue plan is taking shape, reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington suggest.
Discussion: The Other McCain and FT Alphaville
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Wolfgang Munchau / Financial Times:
Zero hour for the euro
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Revenge of the Jews, or of the economy?  —  The American Jewish Committee's annual survey of its constituents (and this is American Jewish adults, not voters) is out today, and shows the sort of dramatic drop in support for Barack Obama that you've seen in a range of polls.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
CNN:
Controversy erupts over Campus Republicans bake sale plans  —  (CNN) — Campus Republicans at the University of California Berkeley have cooked up a storm of controversy with their plans for a bake sale.  —  But it's not your everyday collegiate fundraiser they've got in mind.
Discussion: The Politico and THEROOT.COM
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
A Campaign Finance Ruling Turned to Labor's Advantage  —  WASHINGTON — Labor unions are seizing on last year's landmark Supreme Court campaign finance ruling to change how they engage in politics, developing ambitious plans to influence nonunion households in the 2012 election …
The Huffington Post:
Spreading Freedom: Google And The War For The Web … WASHINGTON — You can't swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals.  Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Politics
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Christie Courted, Still Says No  —  A determined cadre of Republican donors is casting wishful eyes on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in an 11th-hour push to persuade the former prosecutor to enter the 2012 presidential race.  —  The drive reflects lingering discontent in some GOP quarters …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
ObamaCare And The Supreme Court Schedule  —  Apparently Monday is a big day for Team Obama, which can decide whether to delay a Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare until after the 2012 election:  —  Reporting from Washington—  Obama administration lawyers face a decision by Monday …
Brad DeLong / The Huffington Post:
Review: Ron Suskind's Confidence Men  —  When I first learned in 2009 that Ron Suskind's next book was going to be about the making of a economic policy in the Obama administration, I looked forward to it.  Previous books about the making of economic policy had degenerated into unseemly hagiography …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
 
 
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Chris Greenwood / Daily Mail:
Terrorist we can't kick out: Released after half his sentence but still ‘a risk to the public’ …
Discussion: Hot Air, Pajamas Media and Jihad Watch
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Fidel Castro: President Obama U.N. speech ‘gibberish’
Discussion: Reuters and Weasel Zippers
Glen Carey / Bloomberg:
King Abdullah Gives Saudi Women Right to Vote for First Time
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
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